The Thimble Theatre celebrates the centennial of its opening today.The Thimble Theatre opened on December 19, 1919 with the premiere of “From Cabaret to Country,” starring Olive Oyl (headliner) and Harold Hamgravy; written and choreographed by E. C. Segar. Thimble Theatre followed a dozen years of comic strip melodramas, beginning most famously with Hairbreadth Harry […]
The Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise has signed Nancy as their new comic strip.A few days ago the paper introduced the strip to its readers:It’s been nearly two years — April 9, 2018 — since the comic strip created by Ernie Bushmiller got a reboot courtesy of a web cartoonist who goes by the pseudonym Olivia Jaimes. […]
The New York Times interviews Gary Larson to coincide with the launch of the first website to legitimately post his comics.From the piece: Did any cartoons provoke controversy? Man, controversy never seemed too far away from me, especially during my first year of syndication. I truly thought my career may have ended a number of […]
Animator/gag cartoonist Stuart J. Knickerbocker has passed away. Stuart James (Stu) Knickerbocker March 10, 1925 – December 14, 2019animator, artist, gag cartoonistFrom the obituary: Stu was a substitute teacher in Detroit before he began his career in commercial art at the Jam Handy Organization in Detroit. He spent most of his career at Portafilms in […]
Around the time I became a fan of the newly refurbished Hardy Boys, there were other simulacra of which I was unaware. One of those carbons was Brains Benton.A few years after the books first appeared in 1959, veteran cartoonist Tom Gill partnered with a writer (probably not Brains creator Charles Spain Verral) to create […]
Danae may be ahead of her classmates in today’s Non Sequitur, but they’ll follow soon enough. The notion that what’s said on-line stays on-line is nonsense.I remember, in about 2003, going to see a principal at an elementary school so rural (How rural was it?) so rural that you could see cows in the pasture […]
Cartoonist Adam Ellis called out a Malaysian company for using his comic strip art in an advertising campaign without permission, notification, or compensation.Shopee Malaysia has apologised after being called out by cartoonist and former Buzzfeed writer Adam Ellis for stealing one of his comics to promote its 12.12. Birthday Sale. In a tweet last week, […]
Peter Brookes leads off today with a cartoon about the UK elections that resonates in the US.There are plenty of political analysts who link Boris Johnson’s stunning victory to the radical policies of his chief opponent, Jeremy Corbin, and American commentators have suggested that Democrats are heading down the same path to defeat if they […]
The (Vancouver, Washington) Columbian will no longer publish a Monday edition of their newspaper. But the paper let readers of the daily syndicated features know that “Monday Favorites Won’t Be Lost.”Monday comics and puzzles will be in the Tuesday paper, as well as the Tuesday dated features.
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. LOAC Essentials Volume 14: Barney Google, 1928 Anatomy of Authors Rugrats: The Newspaper Strips Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of […]
As Mansion Global says:Ranan Lurie couldn’t have drawn a more perfect view from his 63rd-floor Manhattan apartment, which serves as his office and studio. Now the political cartoonist is about to put the two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom apartment at Time Warner Center on the market for just under $5 million. The listing is set to be […]
Janis is right, but it’s hard not to put eagles above buzzards in the Grand Scheme of Things.Buzzards are pretty amazing birds, hunting with their noses as much, perhaps more, than their eyes.I think the preference for eagles is that they tend to be more solitary, and they combine hunting and scavenging. We like to […]
The firefighters who battled the Tubbs and Kincade fires received a “thank you” in a popular comic strip published on Monday. above: Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis“Pearls Before Swine” usually is about the misadventures of several animals, but creator Stephan Pastis of Santa Rosa shifted the comic’s focus to show how grateful he is […]
We reported on the tariffs a few months ago.Now the effects are hitting home as the most important American literature is being affected.Co-editor Mark Evanier explains the delay in deliverance:Volume 6 of The Complete Syndicated Pogo — subtitled Clean as a Weasel — was originally going to be printed in China and the materials got […]
Michael de Adder picks up on the news that Canada’s athlete of the year and the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year are both women.Tennis player Bianca Andreescu was the unanimous pick for Canada’s Lou Marsh Trophy, while women’s soccer hero Megan Rapinoe was chosen by SI for her courage as well as her athletic […]